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- the present invention relates to image capture systems and, more particularly, to image capture systems that also capture affective information.
- Still and motion images are recorded in digital form.
- Digital still and motion images can be captured using a digital still or digital video cameras.
- Digital still and motion images are also obtained by converting images that have been recorded in other ways into digital form. For example, it is well known to use analog to digital converters to convert analog electronic video signals into digital images. It is also known to use optical scanners to derive digital images from images recorded on photographic prints, films, plates and negatives.
- Digital still and motion images are easily viewed, stored, retrieved, and printed by a user using a home computer or other image processing device.
- Such images can be uploaded to a website for viewing, as described in commonly assigned U.S. Pat. No. 5,666,215 filed by Fredlund et al. on Aug. 3, 1995.
- uploaded digital images can be viewed, selected for printing, electronically transmitted to other family members and/or friends or stored in on-line databases and photo albums.
- the databases are typically organized according to various categories such as the date of capture, places, events, people. Other categories are also used. Often, such categories do not inherently help the user to locate images that are of particular importance or value. Instead the user must remember the image, and when the image was captured and/or how the user categorized it.
- Affective information represents a user's psychological, physiological, and behavioral reactions to an event. Affective information can refer both to recorded raw physiological signals and their interpretations.
- affective information digital still and video images can be classified based on a user's subjective importance, a degree of preference or the intensity of and nature of specific emotions. Such classifications can help to quickly find, review and share those valuable images.
- the system detects physiological signals such as a sudden increase of the wearer's heart rate with no corresponding increase in footstep rate. Then, the system makes an inference from the biosignals about high importance of the visual information. This, in turn, triggers recording of images from the wearer's camera and sending these images to friends or relatives who would determine a degree of a danger.
- This selective storage of digital images creates a “memory” archive for the wearer which aims to mimic the wearer's own selective memory response.
- the camera can be set to automatically record images at a specified frequency, when very few responses have been detected from the wearer, indicating that their attention level has dropped.
- the described systems do not associate, do not store, and do not transmit the physiological signals, or any other “importance” identifier together with the corresponding images.
- the “important” images can be easily lost among other images in a database, since there is nothing in these “important” images to indicate that these images are “important”. This can happen, for example when the digital image files are used on a different system, when the images are transferred via a recordable contact disk or other media, when the images are uploaded to an on-line photo service provider, etc.
- the described systems also do not associate, do not store, and do not transmit the user's identifier together with the corresponding images. Therefore, when the system is used by more that one user, it is unable to distinguish which user reacts to the image as “important”.
- the described systems provide only binary classification “important-unimportant” and do not allow a finer differentiation of the relative degree of importance between the captured images.
- the number of important images becomes too large to serve the purpose of the importance attribute, unless the user will change the attribute for every image in his or her database, which is a lengthy and tiresome process.
- the described systems provide image classification only based on the general “importance” attribute. For example, they are unable to differentiate whether the important image evoked a positive (happy) or negative (unhappy) reaction in the user. Therefore, a wide range of human emotional reactions (e.g., joy, sadness, anger, fear, interest, etc.) is not considered in the system and cannot be applied to the advantage of the user.
- a wide range of human emotional reactions e.g., joy, sadness, anger, fear, interest, etc.
- affective signals are obtained containing facial characteristics and physiological characteristics of a person.
- the facial characteristics are analyzed and the physiological characteristics are analyzed.
- the emotional state of the person is determined based upon analysis of the facial and physiological characteristics of the person.
- One imaging system has an image capture system adapted to capture an image selected by a user.
- a memory stores the image.
- a set of sensors is adapted to capture affective signals from the user at capture including facial characteristics and physiological characteristics of the user.
- a processor is adapted to determine an emotional state of the user based upon analysis of the affective signals and to associate the affective information with the captured image.
- FIG. 1 a shows a handheld embodiment of an image capture system in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 1 b shows a wearable embodiment of an image capture system in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 1 c shows another wearable image capture system for creating affective information in association with a scene at the moment of capture
- FIGS. 2 a and 2 b comprise a flow diagram showing one embodiment of the invention where providing affective information is provided based on analysis of facial expressions;
- FIGS. 3 a and 3 b comprise a flow diagram showing an embodiment of a the invention where affective information is provided based on analysis of facial expressions;
- FIGS. 4 a and 4 b comprise a flow diagram showing an embodiment method where affective information is provided based on analysis of fixation time
- FIGS. 5 a and 5 b comprise a flow diagram showing a method where affective information is provided based on analysis of skin conductance
- FIGS. 6 a and 6 b comprise a flow diagram showing an embodiment of a method where affective information is provided based on combined analysis of facial characteristics and physiological characteristics;
- FIGS. 7 a and 7 b comprise a flow diagram showing another embodiment of a method for providing affective information based on combined analysis of facial characteristics and physiological characteristics.
- the present invention provides a method for collecting affective information as a user views a scene and associating this information and its interpretation with a captured image of the specified scene.
- Interpretation of affective information can provide several gradations of user's preference (e.g., the degree to which the user likes the scene). It also can provide a relative degree of importance of the scene to the user. Additionally, interpretation of affective information can be done in terms of the specific emotion (e.g., happiness, sadness, fear, anger, etc.) evoked by the scene.
- a scene is defined as something seen by a viewer. It can be the place where an action or event occurs, an assemblage of people and/or objects seen by a viewer, a series of actions and events, a landscape or part of a landscape, etc.
- Scenes recorded or displayed by an image capture device are referred to as images of scenes. Examples of image capture devices include digital still cameras, a handheld video cameras, a wearable video cameras, a conventional photographic cameras that record images such as still or motion picture images on a film, all analog video camera, etc.
- the user can observe scenes directly, through a camera's viewfinder, or on a camera preview screen serving as a viewfinder.
- image and images include but are not limited to still images, motion images, multi-perspective images such a stereo images or other depth images, and other forms of immersive still and motion images.
- affective information Information that represents user's psychological, physiological, and behavioral reactions to a particular scene or an image of the scene, is referred to herein as affective information.
- Affective information can include raw physiological and behavioral signals (e.g., galvanic skin response, heart rate, facial expressions, etc.) as well as their psychological interpretation (e.g., preferred, not preferred, etc.), and association with an emotional category (e.g., fear, anger, happiness, etc.).
- the affective information is changed when a user's psychological reaction is changed. This can happen, for example, when a user suddenly sees a dangerous accident, an amazing action, or a beautiful landscape.
- Affective tagging is defined as the process of determining affective information, and storing the affective information in association with images of a particular scene.
- the affective information is stored in association with user identification data, it is referred to herein as “personal affective information”.
- the user identification data can be any type of information that is uniquely associated with a user.
- the user identification data can be a personal identification code such as a globally unique ID (GUID), user number, social security number, or the like.
- the user identifier can also be a complete legal name, a nickname, a computer user name, or the like.
- the user identification data can alternatively include information such as a facial image or description, fingerprint image or description, retina scan, or the like.
- the user identification data can also be an Internet address, cellular telephone number or other identification.
- the affective information and user identifier are types of image “metadata”, which is a term used for any information relating to an image.
- image metadata examples of other types of image metadata that can be incorporated in the personal affective information that is stored in the affective tag include information derived from scene images and non-image data such as image capture time, capture device, capture location, date of capture, image capture parameters, image editing history etc.
- the personal affective information can be associated with a digital image by storing the personal affective information within the image file, for example using a Tagged Image File Format IFD within an Exif image file.
- the affective information can be stored in one or more application segments in a Joint Photographic Export Group file containing the first image (or alternatively the second image) in accordance with the JPEG standard format ISO 10918-1 (ITU-T.81). This allows a single, industry standard image file to contain both a JPEG compressed first image stored as a normal JPEG image, and the affective information to be stored in a proprietary form that is ignored by normal JPEG readers.
- the personal affective information can be stored in a database that is separate from the image. This information can also be stored along with security and access permission information to prevent unauthorized access to the information.
- Affective tagging can be (lone either manually or automatically, as a user views a particular scene or images of the scene using an image capture device.
- manual affective tagging user can enter affective information by using manual controls, which can include for example, camera's control buttons, touch-screen display, or voice recognition interface to provide his/her reaction to the scene. For example, in the case of a surprise, the user might “click” a camera's button representing “surprise” reaction, or simply say a keyword such as “Wow!”.
- an image capture device can use one of the following affective signals or their combinations to collect affective information, which can be subsequently interpreted:
- affective information is determined automatically based on facial expression, eye fixation duration, and galvanic skin response. Other combinations can also be used.
- FIGS. 1 a - 1 c there are illustrated three example embodiments of image capture systems made in accordance with the present invention.
- the system depicted in FIG. 1 a is a handheld image capture device 6 in possession of a particular user 2 , who views a scene 4 either directly, or through a viewfinder 24 , or on a preview screen 22 .
- a digital still camera, handheld digital video camera, wearable video camera, etc. may be considered as the image capture device 6 .
- Examples of wearable embodiments of image capture device 6 are shown in FIG. 1 b and FIG. 1 c.
- Image capture device 6 includes a capture module 8 to capture images of the scene 4 .
- the capture module 8 includes a taking lens (not shown), an image sensor (not shown) and an A/D converter (not shown).
- the capture module can also include a microphone (not shown), audio amplifier (not shown), an audio A/D converter (not shown).
- Capture module 8 provides digital still or motion image signals and associated digital audio signals.
- Image capture device 6 also includes a central processing unit (CPU) 14 and a digital storage device 12 , that can store high-resolution image files such as digital still or digital motion images provided by the capture module 8 as well as associated metadata.
- Digital storage device 12 can be a miniature magnetic hard drive, Flash EPROM memory, or other type of digital memory.
- Image capture device 6 is shown adapted with a communication module 18 such as a wireless modem or other communication interface that exchanges data including digital still and video images using a communication service provider, such as an Internet service provider 20 .
- Communication module 18 can use a standard radio frequency wireless communication systems, for example the well-known Bluetooth system or the IEEE Standard 802.15 system, a digital paging system, a conventional cellular telephone system or other wireless systems.
- communication module 18 can exchange information with other devices using infrared, laser, or other optical communication schemes.
- image capture device 6 can have a communication module 18 that is adapted to use data exchange hardware such as a Uniform Serial Bus cable, IEEE Standard 1394 cable, other electrical data paths such as a wire or set of wires, a waveguide, or an optical data path to permit information including digital images and affective information to be exchanged between image capture device 6 and other devices.
- data exchange hardware such as a Uniform Serial Bus cable, IEEE Standard 1394 cable, other electrical data paths such as a wire or set of wires, a waveguide, or an optical data path to permit information including digital images and affective information to be exchanged between image capture device 6 and other devices.
- image capture device 6 includes manual controls 13 and a set of sensors 15 that can detect a user's physiological signals.
- User 2 can enter affective information by using controls 13 , which can include for example, manual control buttons, touch-screen display, or a voice or gesture recognition interface.
- Affective information can also be gathered by a set of sensors 15 .
- the set of sensors 15 include galvanic skin response sensors 16 that are mounted on the surface of the image capture device 6 .
- any of the set of sensors 15 can be mounted elsewhere as shown in FIG. 1 b , where galvanic skin response sensors 16 are located on the sidepiece 29 of a conventional frame 28 used for supporting glasses.
- the set of sensors 15 can also include a vascular sensor 17 , usefully incorporated on a portion of the sidepiece 29 proximate to the arteries in the temple of the head of the user thus facilitating measurement of temperature and/or heart rate readings.
- the set of sensors 15 can also include a vibration sensor 19 as is depicted in FIG. 1 b proximate to the ears and can be adapted to detect audible vibration proximate to the ear or by way of contact with the ear. Vibration sensor 19 can be adapted to detect both sounds emanating from the user and sounds that emanate from other sources. Any of the set of sensors 15 can be located in other useful arrangements. Any one of the sets of sensors 15 can be miniaturized so that their presence would not alter the appearance of a wearable embodiment of image capture device 6 . For example, as is shown in the embodiment of FIG. 1 c sensors 16 for detecting galvanic skin response are a part of a wearable image capture device 6 mounted on a bridge 26 of a conventional frame 28 .
- the set of sensors 15 can comprise neural sensors and other devices adapted to monitor electrical activity from nerve cells to allow for interaction with the environment.
- sensors 15 include as the brain communicator and the Muscle Communicator sold by Neural Signals, Inc. Atlanta. Ga., U.S.A. These devices monitor, respectively, electrical signals at a nerve cell and signals radiated by certain nerves to detect the signals that are used for example to cause an average person to move an extremity. These signals are transmitted to a computer, where software decodes the signals into useful information. It will be appreciated that such technology can be used to detect affective information as well as other information useful in determining affective information. For example, neural activity along a nerve carrying sound information from an car can be monitored and used to determine audio information that reflects what the observer actually heard at an event.
- Image capture device 6 also includes a user camera 10 , which is used to record video images of eye movements, pupil size, and facial expressions of the user 2 .
- User camera 10 can incorporate for example a conventional charge couple device imager, a complimentary metal oxide imager or a charge injection device. Other imaging technologies can also be used.
- the images that are captured by user camera 10 can include video images for forming an image of the user or some feature of the user's face.
- the images that are captured by user camera 10 can also include other forms of video images from which affective information can be obtained. For example, images that represent eye position and pupil size do not need to constitute full digital images of a user's eye. Instead other forms of imaging can be used that have lower resolution or a non-linear imaging pattern in order to reduce costs or to simplify the imaging structure.
- User video camera 10 can include, for example, an infrared sensitive camera.
- a set of infrared light emitting diodes direct infrared light toward the pupils of user.
- User video camera 10 detects infrared signals radiated by the eyes of the user. The pupils are then are tracked from the facial image of the user.
- a useful user video camera 10 is the Blue Eyes camera system developed by International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., U.S.A.
- Another useful example of a user camera 10 is the Eyegaze System sold by LC Technologies Inc., Fairfax, Va., U.S.A.
- Other useful embodiments of user camera 10 are shown and described in greater detail in commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/303,978 entitled “Camera System With Eye Monitoring” filed by Miller et al. on Nov. 25, 2002.
- User video camera 10 can be attached to or located inside of the handheld image capture device 6 as shown in FIG. 1 a , on a head mounted frame 28 such as the wearable image capture device 6 as shown in FIG. 1 b , or on a remote frame of the wearable image capture device 6 as shown in FIG. 1 c .
- user video camera 10 is especially suitable for capturing a variety of facial features of the user, including pupil size, eye and brow movements.
- it is best suited for capturing eye movements and other eye characteristics.
- User video camera 10 can also be separate from image capture device 6 , and in this embodiment user video camera 10 can comprise any image capture device that can capture an image of user of image capture device 6 and transfer this image to the image capture device.
- the transfer of images from a remote user video camera 10 can be done wirelessly using any known wireless communication system.
- Feature tracking can be performed using various algorithms, such as for example, described in an article entitled “Facial Feature Tracking for Eye-Head Controlled Human Computer Interface”, published in Proceedings of IEEE TENCON, 1999, pp. 72-75 by Ko et al).
- This algorithm capable of real-time facial feature tracking, composes complete graph using candidate blocks it identities from a processed facial image, and then computes a measure of similarity for each pair of blocks.
- the eyes are located as the blocks having the maximum similarity. Based on the eye position, the mouth, lip-corners and nostrils are located. The located features are tracked.
- a wearable image capture device 6 having a user video camera 10 that is adapted to record eye movements can be found, for example, in an article entitled “Oculomotor Behavior and Perceptual Strategies in Complex Tasks” published in Vision Research, Vol. 41, pp. 3587-3596, [2001] by Pelz et al.
- the article describes a wearable lightweight eyetracker in the form of a head-gear/goggles, which include a module containing an infrared illuminator, a miniature video eye camera, and a beam-splitter to align the camera to be coaxial with the illuminating beam. Retro-reflection provides the pupil illumination to produce a bright-pupil image.
- An external mirror folds the optical path toward the front of the goggles, where a hot mirror directs the IR illumination toward the eye and reflects the eye image back to the eye camera.
- a second miniature camera is mounted on the goggles to capture a scene image from the user's perspective.
- user video camera 10 is shown as consisting consists of two pieces, which enable capture of eye characteristics of both eyes. It is however understood that user video camera 10 may be represented by one piece that captures the eye characteristics of both or only one of the eyes of user 2 .
- Image capture device 6 is provided with appropriate software which is utilized by CPU 14 for creating and using personalized affective information.
- This software is typically stored on digital storage device 12 , and can be uploaded or updated using communication module 18 .
- software programs to enable CPU 14 to perform image processing and analysis pertaining to non-affective information, which can be extracted from images of the scene provided by capture module 8 is also stored on the digital storage device 12 .
- the digital storage device 12 can also store information with respect to a personal user profile, which could be a specific database that includes information summarizing characteristics of user's reactions such as, for example, quantitative information about typical reaction patterns, as well as a software program to enable CPU 14 to access this specific database.
- This personal user profile can be queried by CPU 14 when creating and using personalized affective information.
- the personal user profile is updated by new information that is learned about the reactions of user 2 .
- image capture device 6 may be implemented as integral parts of the image capture device 6 or as physically separate devices connected with wires or wirelessly.
- the following describes various embodiments of methods for image capture device 6 to determine affective information based on analysis of facial characteristics such as a degree of preference extracted from facial expression; or an emotional category and the degree of distinctiveness extracted from a facial expression.
- Other embodiments show methods for determining affective information based upon physiological information such as a degree of interest extracted from pupil size and eye movements or a degree of excitement extracted from galvanic skin response.
- Further embodiments show methods for using a combination of facial analysis and physiological information to derive affective information.
- FIGS. 2 a and 2 b there is shown a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a method of the present invention for providing affective information based on the degree of preference of a particular user for a subset of images of a particular scene.
- affective information is determined based on facial expression of the particular user.
- the software application that implements the method of the present invention is already installed in the image capture device 6 and it is launched automatically (step 112 ).
- the user can start the application manually, by using appropriate control buttons (not shown) on the image capture device 6 .
- User 2 enters user identification data such as a user ID and password (step 114 ).
- the user video camera 10 is used in conjunction with face recognition software to automatically determine the identity of user 2 , and to provide an appropriate user identifier, such as the user's name, personal identification code or other identifier.
- user identification data can be obtained from data sources that are external such as a radio frequency transponder to capture device 6 using, for example, communication module 18 .
- image capture device 6 is pre-programmed with user identification data and step 114 is not required.
- Image capture device 6 optionally provides a selection of signals that can be recorded in order to determine the user's emotional reaction as they view scenes (step 116 ).
- the user selects the desirable signal, i.e., facial expression in this case (step 118 ).
- the image capture device 6 is preprogrammed to use one or more affective signals, and steps 116 and 118 are not required.
- the capture module 8 captures the first image of a scene (step 120 ) and, simultaneously the user video camera 10 captures the first facial image of the user 2 (step 130 ).
- Image capture device 6 temporarily stores the scene image (step 122 ) and the facial image (step 132 ), and automatically analyses the facial expression of user 2 (step 134 ).
- Facial expressions can be analyzed using a publicly disclosed algorithm for facial expression recognition such as an algorithm described in an article entitled, “Facial Expression Recognition Using a Dynamic Model and Motion Energy”, published in Proceedings of the ICCV 95, Cambridge, Mass. U.S.A., 1995 by Essa et al. This algorithm is based on knowledge of the probability distribution of the facial muscle activation associated with each expression and a detailed physical model of the skin and muscles. This physics-based model is used to recognize facial expressions through comparison of estimated muscle activations from the video signal and typical muscle activations obtained from a video database of emotional expressions.
- Facial expressions can also be analyzed by means of other publicly available algorithms.
- One example of such an algorithm is found in “Detection, Tracking, and Classification of Action Units in Facial Expression,” published in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 31, pp. 131-146, 2000 by J. J. Lien, et al.
- Another similar algorithm is found in an article entitled “Measuring facial expressions by computer image analysis”, published in Psychophysiology, Vol. 36 pp. 253-263 by Bartlett et al. [1999].
- These algorithms are based on recognizing specific facial actions—the basic muscle movements—which were described in a paper entitled “Facial Action Coding System”, published in Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., U.S.A.
- a spontaneous smile can be represented by two basic facial actions: 1) the corners of the mouth are lifted up by a muscle called zygomaticus major; and 2) the eyes are crinkled by a muscle called orbicularis oculi. Therefore, when uplifted mouth and crinkled eyes are detected in the video signal, it means that a person is smiling.
- a user's face can be recognized as smiling when a smile on user's face is detected, or not smiling when the smile is not detected.
- Image capture device 6 determines the smile size (step 136 ). If the smile is not detected, the smile size equals 0. If a smile has been detected for a given image, a smile size for this image is determined as the maximum distance between mouth corners within first three seconds after the onset of the specified image divided by the distance between the person's eyes.
- the distance between the eyes of user 2 is determined using the facial recognition algorithms mentioned above. The necessity of taking the ratio between the size of the mouth and some measure related to the head of user 2 (e.g. the distance between the eyes) stems from the fact that the size of the mouth extracted from the facial images depends on the distance of user 2 to user video camera 10 , position of the head, etc. The distance between the eyes of user 2 is used to account for this dependency, however other measures such as the height or width of the face, the area of the face and other measures can also be used.
- Image capture device 6 determines the degree of preference (step 138 ) If the smile was not detected, then the smile size and consequently the degree of preference is equal to 0. If the smile was indeed detected, the absolute degree of preference corresponds to the smile size.
- the relative degree of preference is defined as the smile size divided by an average smile size associated with a personal user profile for user 2 .
- the average smile size data in the personal user profile can be constantly updated and stored on digital storage device 12 .
- the personal user profile with respect to average smile size can be then updated using the smile size data (step 139 ).
- the obtained degree of preference is compared to a threshold value established by user 2 . (step 140 ). If the obtained degree of preference is above the threshold value, then image capture device 6 creates a personal affective tag for the corresponding image which indicates a preference for this particular captured image (step 144 ).
- the threshold value for the degree of preference could also be established automatically from the personal user profile, for example, on the basis of the prior cumulative probabilities for the user's degrees of preference distribution. In one embodiment such a probability could be equal to 0.5, and thus, the threshold value for the degree of preference would correspond to the value that occurs in at least 50% of the cases.
- the personal affective tag can include a value selected from a range preference values, enabling the differentiation of the relative degree of preference between various captured images.
- Image capture device 6 stores the corresponding image and the personal affective tag, which indicates the degree of preference, within the image file containing the scene image, as part of the image metadata (step 146 ).
- the personal affective tag which indicates the degree of preference, can be stored in a separate file in association with the user identification data and the image identifier. When this is done, data is stored in the image metadata indicating the location of the file.
- the information about the date that user 2 vices a certain image i.e. immediately upon capture
- the raw facial images are stored as affective information either in a separate file on the image capture device 6 together with the image identifier and the user identifier, or in the personal affective tag as part of the image metadata, and the analysis is done at a later time and optionally using a separate system.
- the scene image and raw facial image can be communicated using the communication module 18 (see FIG. 1 ) and the Internet service provider 20 to a separate desktop computer (not shown) or computer server (not shown), which can perform the analysis described earlier in relation to steps 134 - 138 .
- the corresponding image, the personal affective tag and any other image metadata are sent using the communication module 18 to a personal database of digital images (step 148 ).
- This personal database of images can be stored, for example, using separate desktop computer (not shown) or computer serve (not shown).
- the facial image of the user is deleted (step 142 ).
- image capture device 6 can optionally capture the next facial image and repeat steps 132 through 140 to determine if user 2 has changed her facial expression as user 2 views the same scene or the captured image of the scene.
- the threshold value is set to 0, all scene images and corresponding affective information (degree of preference or in another embodiment, raw facial image) recorded by the image capture device 6 will be stored as described above.
- step 124 the process of capturing the next image of the scene (steps 120 - 124 ) are repeated and simultaneously the steps of determining and storing a personal affective tag for the captured image (steps 130 - 146 ) are repeated (step 126 ).
- Image capture device 6 continues recording images of the scene 4 using capture module 8 and facial images of user 2 using user video camera 10 , as long as user 2 keeps the image capture device 6 powered on. If the power is turned off, image capture device 6 stops recording the images of the scene and the facial images and also ends the process of affective tagging (step 128 ).
- the degree of preference can be used in a digital imaging system to rank images in a systematic and continuous manner as favorite images for a specified user as described in commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/036,113, filed Dec. 26, 2001, entitled “Method for Creating and Using Affective Information in a Digital Imaging System” by Matraszek et al.; and Ser. No. 10/036,123, filed Dec. 26, 2001, entitled “Method for Using Affective Information Recorded With Digital Images for Producing an Album Page” by Matraszek et al., the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- a binary degree of preference for images of a scene can be determined.
- the corresponding image is then classified as preferred with the binary degree of preference equals 1.
- the image is classified as not preferred with the degree of preference equals 0.
- the determined affective information in terms of the binary degree of preference is then stored as a personal affective tag, which includes the user identification data as part of the image metadata. It can also be stored in a separate file on digital storage device 12 together with the image identifier and the user identification data. In addition, affective information in terms of the actual image(s) of the user's facial expression can also be stored in a separate file in association with the image identifier and the user identification.
- captured images are transferred by image capture device 6 to the Internet service provider 20 only when the affective information exceeds a threshold, such as a threshold for the relative smile size.
- a threshold such as a threshold for the relative smile size.
- images which exceed a preference threshold are stored in the user's personal database of images.
- metadata is stored in the image files that indicate that such files met the preference threshold.
- FIGS. 3 a and 3 b there is shown a flow diagram illustrating another embodiment of the present invention for providing affective information that characterizes the emotional category of the user's reaction, during image capture.
- affective information is obtained based on the analysis of a user's facial expressions.
- an emotional category for images of a scene can be determined.
- the facial expression may be classified into a broader range of emotional categories, such as ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘disgust’, ‘surprised’, etc.
- scenes that evoke ‘happy’ facial expressions are assigned the ‘happy’ emotional category: scenes that evoke ‘sad’ facial expressions are assigned the ‘sad’ emotional category, etc.
- Images of the scene can be further classified using a range of values for these categories, such as strongly happy, somewhat happy, neutral and somewhat sad, and strongly sad, etc.
- the determined affective information in terms of the emotional category is then stored as personal affective tag, which includes the user identifier as part of the image metadata. It can also be stored in a separate file on the digital storage device 12 together with the image identifier and the user identifier.
- Facial expressions may be classified into a broader range of emotional categories, such as ‘happiness’, ‘sadness’, ‘disgust’, ‘surprise’, etc.
- a publicly disclosed algorithm that categorizes facial expressions is described in an article entitled. “EMPATH: A Neural Network that Categorizes Facial Expressions”, published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2002 by Daily et al.
- the algorithm classifies facial expressions into six basic emotional categories: ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘afraid’, ‘angry’, ‘disgusted’, and ‘surprised’ based on developing a feedforward neural network consisting of three neuron layers performing three levels of processing: perceptual analysis, object representation, and categorization.
- the first layer mimics a set of neurons with the properties similar to those of complex cells in the visual cortex.
- the units in the second layer extract regularities from the data.
- the outputs of the third layer are categorized into six basic emotions. As a result, each facial expression will be coded by six numbers, one for each emotion. The numbers, corresponding to different emotions are all positive and sum to 1, so they can be interpreted as probabilities.
- the following method determines an emotional category based on a user's facial expression, and further provides a range of values for these categories, more specifically, the degree of “distinctiveness” of an emotional category is suggested and shown in FIGS. 3 a and 3 b .
- the degree of distinctiveness of an emotional category reflects a measure of uniqueness or “purity” of a particular emotion as opposed to fuzziness or ambiguity of the emotion. In common language such an emotion is often referred to as “mixed feelings”.
- Steps 150 through 172 of the embodiment of FIG. 3 generally correspond to steps 110 through 132 of the embodiment of FIG. 2 .
- image capture device 6 automatically analyzes the facial expression of user 2 by applying the neural network method described by Dailey et al (step 174 ).
- a user's facial expression is associated with six numbers, one for every basic emotion.
- An emotional category is determined by choosing the category with the largest number (step 176 ). For example, if the numbers were 0.5, 0.01, 0.2, 0.1, 0.19 and 0 for ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘afraid’, ‘angry’, ‘disgusted’, and ‘surprised’, respectively, then the determined emotional category is happy, because it has the largest respective number 0.5. Consequently, scenes that evoke ‘happy ’ facial expressions are assigned the ‘happy’ emotional category; scenes that evoke ‘sad’ facial expressions are assigned the ‘sad’ emotional category, etc.
- one category can be randomly selected to be the facial expression.
- other affective or non-affective information can be used to help select a category.
- Image capture device 6 determines the degree of distinctiveness of the emotional category (step 178 ).
- the degree of distinctiveness (DD EC ) is computed from the numbers for six emotions established in the previous step 176 , which are denoted for the convenience as N 1 , N 2 , N 3 , N 4 , N 5 , and N 6 .
- DD EC corresponds to the absolute degree of distinctiveness for the emotional category EC.
- the relative degree of distinctiveness is defined as the absolute degree of distinctiveness for the emotional category EC divided by an average value for the DD EC established in a user profile for the respective emotional category for the particular user.
- the average DD EC data in the user profile can be constantly updated and stored on digital storage device 12 as a part of a personal user profile for user 2 .
- the personal user profile is queried and updated with respect to the average degree of distinctiveness of the emotional category DD EC (step 179 ).
- the obtained degree of distinctiveness is compared to a threshold value established by user 2 or for user 2 (step 180 ). If the obtained degree of distinctiveness is above a threshold value, then, image capture device 6 creates a personal affective tag for the corresponding image which indicates an emotional category with the degree of its distinctiveness for this particular captured image (step 184 ).
- the threshold value for the degree of distinctiveness could also be established automatically from the personal user profile, for example, on the basis of the prior cumulative probabilities for the user's degrees of distinctiveness distribution corresponding to a particular emotional category. In one embodiment such probability could be equal 0.5, and thus, the threshold value for the degree of distinctiveness would correspond to the value that occurs in at least 50% of the cases.
- the personal affective tag can include a value selected from a range of distinctiveness values, enabling the differentiation of the relative degree of distinctiveness between various captured images.
- Image capture device 6 stores the corresponding image and the personal affective tag, which indicates the emotional category with the degree of its distinctiveness within the image file containing the scene image, as part of the image metadata (step 186 ).
- the personal affective tag which indicates the emotional category with the degree of distinctiveness, can be stored in a separate file in association with the user identification data and the image identifier.
- the information about the date that the user views a certain image i.e. immediately upon capture
- the raw facial images are stored as affective information either in a separate file on the image capture device 6 together with the image identifier and the user identifier, or in the personal affective tag as part of the image metadata, and the analysis is done at a later time and optionally using a separate system.
- the scene image and raw facial image can be communicated using the wireless modem 18 (see FIG. 1 ) and the Internet service provider 20 to a separate desktop computer (not shown) or computer server (not shown), which can perform the analysis described earlier in relation to steps 174 - 178 .
- the corresponding image, the personal affective tag and other image metadata are sent using the communication module 18 to Internet service provider 20 , to a personal database of digital images (step 188 ).
- This personal database of images can be stored, for example, using separate desktop computer (not shown) or computer server (not shown).
- step 182 If the obtained degree of distinctiveness is below the threshold value and if user 2 is still viewing the same captured image, such as for example on preview screen 22 , image capture device 6 can optionally capture the next facial image and repeat steps 172 through 180 to determine if user 2 has changed their facial expression as user 2 views the same scene or a captured image on preview screen 22 .
- the threshold value is set to 0, all scene images and corresponding affective information (emotional category with the degree of distinctiveness or in another embodiment, raw facial image), recorded by the image capture device 6 , still be permanently stored as affective information either in a separate file on the image capture device 6 together with the image identification data and the user identifier, or in the personal affective tag as part of the image metadata.
- Image capture device 6 continues recording images of the scene 4 using capture module 8 and facial images of user 2 using user video camera 10 , as long as user 2 keeps the image capture device 6 powered on. In step 168 , if the power is turned off, the image capture device 6 stops recording the images of the scene and the facial images and also ends the process of affective tagging.
- steps 160 - 166 the process of capturing the next image of the scene (steps 160 - 166 ) and simultaneously determining and storing at personal affective tag for the captured image (steps 170 - 186 ) are repeated.
- the emotional category and its degree of distinctiveness can be used in a digital imaging system to rank images in a systematic and continuous manner as emotionally significant or favorite images for a specified user as described in commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/036,113, entitled “Method for Creating and Using Affective Information in a Digital Imaging System” by Matraszek et al. filed Dec. 26, 2001; and Ser. No. 10/036,123, entitled “Method for Using Affective Information Recorded With Digital Images for Producing an Album Page” by Matraszek et al., filed Dec. 26, 2001 the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- only the emotional category for images of a scene can be determined without the degree of distinctiveness.
- the emotional category is detected (step 174 )
- the corresponding image is then classified by the specified emotion.
- a neutral category can be assigned.
- the determined affective information in terms of the emotional category is then stored as personal affective tag, which includes the user identification data as part of the image metadata. It can also be stored in a separate file on the digital storage device 12 together with the image identifier and the user identification data. In addition, affective information in terms of the actual image(s) of the user's facial expression can also be stored in a separate file in association with the image identifier and the user identification data.
- FIGS. 4 a and 4 b show a flow diagram illustrating another embodiment of the present invention where affective information is provided in terms of a degree of interest based upon a physiological characteristic namely eye gaze information.
- a degree of interest is determined based on eye gaze fixation time, which is the time that eyes of user 2 are fixated at a particular location of the scene, before fixating at a different location.
- fixation time information is assessed directly for scenes as well as first party images of the scenes and stored as a personal affective tag as part of the image metadata or in a separate file in association with the user identifier and the image identifier.
- method steps 210 - 228 generally correspond to method steps 110 - 128 in FIG. 2 with only one difference: in step 218 , the user selects the “fixation time” signal.
- the image capture device 6 can be preprogrammed to capture the “fixation time” information.
- user video camera 10 in image capture device 6 captures a sample of eye images during a time window, such as a time window of 30 seconds, when the user views the scene (step 230 ) during one of image composition, capture, and immediate post capture review.
- a time window can be modified by user 2 .
- Coordinates of the eye gaze direction of user 2 are stored with a sampling rate, such as a sampling rate of 60 Hz (step 232 ).
- the sampling rate can be modified by user 2 .
- the sampling rate can also be modified based upon other factors such as the rate of charge from the eye gaze as the time rate of change of scene contents or the amount of memory available for storing affective data.
- the raw gaze coordinates are grouped into eye fixations (step 234 ).
- An eye fixation is usually defined as period of at least 50 msec during which the gaze coordinates do not change by more than 1-degree of visual angle.
- a start time, end time and gaze coordinates are determined. Additionally, an average pupil diameter can be determined for each fixation.
- the duration of eye fixations is measured based on their start and end times (step 236 ).
- Image capture device 6 determines the degree of interest for each eye fixation (step 238 ).
- the absolute degree of interest is defined as the corresponding fixation time.
- the relative degree of interest is defined as the fixation time divided by the average fixation time for the particular user.
- the average fixation time can be constantly updated and stored on digital storage device 12 as a part of a personal user profile for user 2 .
- the personal user profile is queried and updated with respect to the average fixation time for user 2 (step 239 ).
- the obtained degree of interest is compared to a threshold value established for the user (step 240 ). If the obtained degree of interest is above the threshold value, then the image capture device 6 creates a personal affective tag indicating the degree of interest (step 244 ).
- the threshold value for the degree of interest could also be established automatically from the personal user profile for example, on the basis of the prior cumulative probability for the user's degree of interest distribution of user 2 . One such probability could be equal 0.5, and thus, the threshold value for the degree of interest would correspond to the value that occurs in at least 50% of the cases.
- image capture device 6 stores the corresponding image and the degree of interest in the personal affective tag as part of the image metadata (step 246 ).
- the degree of interest can be stored in a separate file in association with the user identification data and the image identifier. Where this is done, data is stored in the image metadata indicating the location of the file having the personal affective information.
- the information about the date the user views a certain image can be also recorded as a separate entry into personal affective tag.
- the scene images and the raw eye images are stored.
- the raw eye images can be analyzed later, either by the CPU 14 or by a processor in a separate device (not shown), which receives the stored images.
- the corresponding image, the personal affective tag and other image metadata are sent to a personal database of digital images, as described earlier in relation to step 148 (step 248 ).
- image capture device 6 can optionally capture another segment of eye images and repeat steps 232 through 240 as user 2 views the same scene or the captured image of the same scene.
- the threshold value is set to 0
- all scene images and corresponding affective information (degree of interest or, in another embodiment, raw eve images) recorded by the image capture device 6 will be stored as affective information either in a separate file on the image capture device 6 together with the image identifier and the user identifier, or in the personal affective tag as part of the image metadata.
- the image capture device 6 continues recording images f the scene 4 using capture module 8 and facial images of user 2 using user video camera 10 , as long as user 2 keeps the image capture device 6 powered on.
- step 168 if the power is turned off, the image capture device 6 stops recording the images of the scene and the facial images and also ends the process of affective tagging.
- steps 220 - 226 the process of capturing the next image of the scene (steps 220 - 226 ) and simultaneously determining and storing a personal affective tag for the captured image (steps 230 - 246 ) are repeated.
- the degree of interest can be used in a digital imaging system to rank images in a systematic and continuous manner as favorite or high value images for a specified user as described in commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/036,113, filed Dec. 26, 2001, entitled “Method for Creating and Using Affective Information in a Digital Imaging System” by Matraszek et al., and Ser. No. 10/036,123, filed Dec. 26, 2001, entitled “Method for Using Affective Information Recorded With Digital Images for Producing an Album Page” by Matraszek et al.
- user camera 10 and central processing unit 14 can be used to obtain additional information from images of user's eye(s). Examples of such information include but are not limited to eye ball acceleration, tear formation eye temperature, iris patterns, blood vessel patterns and blood vessel size. This information can be used to determine user's identity, emotional state and/or health condition. This information can be stored as part of an effective tag.
- FIG. 5 illustrates an embodiment of the present invention where affective information is determined from a physiological signal.
- the physiological signal is skin conductance and the affective information derived from the skin conductance is expressed in terms of a degree of excitement.
- Skin conductance change is a measure of galvanic skin response. Skin conductance reflects a change in a magnitude of the electrical conductance of the skin that is measured as a response to a certain event—viewing the scene or images of the scene. As described in the paper entitled “Looking at Pictures: Affective, Facial, Visceral, and Behavioral Reactions”, published in Psychophysiology, Vol. 30, pp. 261-273, 1993, by Lang et al., skin conductance changes depends on the arousal the image elicits in the viewer: the higher the conductance, the lower the arousal or excitement, and vice versa: the lower the conductance the higher the arousal. The measure of the amplitude of the skin conductance response is also used to determine interest or attention.
- step 318 user 2 can manually instruct image capture device 6 to capture galvanic skin response information as at least a part of the affective information.
- image capture device 6 can be preprogrammed to capture galvanic skin response information.
- the image capture device 6 measures the galvanic skin response signal (luring a time window, for example a time window of 5 seconds, using the galvanic skin response sensor 16 (step 330 ).
- the time windows can be modified by user 2 .
- galvanic skin response sensor 16 can be, for example, SC-Flex/Pro sensor from ProComp detector system sold by Thought Technology, Ltd., W. Chazy, N.Y. U.S.A.
- the galvanic skin response skin conductance signals are stored using a sampling rate, for example a sampling rate of 60 Hz (step 332 ).
- the sampling rate can be modified by user 2 .
- the sampling rate can also be modified based upon other factors such as the rate of change of scene contents, the time rate of change of galvanic skin response, or the amount of memory available for storing affective data.
- the galvanic skin response conductance signals are filtered to reduce the noise in the data (step 334 ).
- the amplitude of the galvanic skin response skin conductance signals is then determined (step 336 ).
- Image capture device 6 determines the degree of excitement based upon galvanic skin response signals (step 338 ).
- the absolute degree of excitement for the scene is equivalent to the amplitude of the filtered galvanic skin response skin conductance signal.
- the relative degree of excitement is defined as the amplitude of the galvanic skin response signal divided by the average galvanic skin response signal for the particular user.
- the average skin conductance can be constantly updated and stored on digital storage device 12 as a part of the user's psychophysiological profile. To compute the relative degree of excitement, the average skin conductance response information is retrieved from a personal user profile. The personal user profile is updated regarding the skin conductance response information (step 339 ).
- the obtained degree of excitement is compared to a threshold value established for the user (step 340 ). If the obtained degree of excitement is above the threshold value, the image capture device 6 creates a personal affective tag indicating the degree of excitement (step 344 ).
- the threshold value for the degree of excitement can be established automatically from the personal user profile, for example, on the basis of the prior probabilities for the user's degrees of excitement. One such probability could be equal 0.5, and thus, the threshold value for the degree of excitement would correspond to the value that occurs in at least 50% of the cases.
- the personal affective tag can include a value selected from a range of excitement values enabling the differentiate of the relative degree of excitement between various captured images.
- Image capture device 6 stores the corresponding scene image and the degree of excitement in the personal affective tag as part of the image metadata (steps 344 and 346 ).
- the degree of excitement can be stored in a separate file in association with the user identification data and the image identifier.
- the information about the date the user views a certain image also can be recorded as a separate entry into personal affective tag.
- the raw galvanic skin response signal is stored as affective information either in a separate file on the image capture device (together with the image identifier and the user identification data, or in the personal affective tag as part of the image metadata.
- the corresponding image, the personal affective tag and other image metadata are sent to a personal database of digital images, as was described earlier in relation to step 148 (step 348 ).
- step 342 if the obtained degree of excitement is below the threshold value the corresponding skin conductance signals are deleted. If the obtained degree of excitement is below the threshold value and user 2 is still viewing the same scene or a captured image of the scene for example on a preview screen 22 , image capture device 6 can optionally measure the next segment of skin conductance signals for 5 seconds and repeat steps 332 through 340 as user 2 views the same scene or a captured image of the same scene.
- the threshold value is set to 0, all scene images and corresponding affective information recorded by the image capture device 6 will be stored.
- the personal user profile can then be updated (step 339 ).
- the degree of excitement can be used in a digital imaging system to rank images in a systematic and continuous manner as favorite, important or exciting images for a specified user as described in commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/036,113, filed Dec. 26, 2001, entitled “Method for Creating and Using Affective Information in a Digital Imaging System” by Matraszek et al.; and Ser. No. 10/036,123, filed Dec. 26, 2001, entitled “Method for Using Affective Information Recorded With Digital Images for Producing an Album Page” by Matraszek et al.
- each user 2 might have different physiological and facial responses to an image. Some users might exhibit strong physiological responses while exhibiting only modest facial responses. Other users might exhibit modest physiological responses while exhibiting strong facial responses. Still other users might exhibit modest physiological and facial responses. Accordingly, by combining different types of affective information, a more robust representation of the emotional response of user 2 to the scene can be obtained.
- the following embodiments show methods for interpreting affective information using physiological and facial response information in combination to help facilitate interpretation of affective information.
- FIGS. 6 a and 6 b there is shown a flow diagram illustrating another embodiment of the present invention for providing affective information based on the combination of the three affective signals described in relation to FIGS. 2-4 , namely, the degree of preference, the degree of interest, and the degree of excitement, which are further combined to obtain an integral measure of positive importance.
- method steps 410 - 428 correspond to method steps 110 - 128 in FIG. 2 with only one difference: in step 418 , the user selects the use of “combined” signals or alternatively, the image capture device 6 is preprogrammed to use the “combined” signals.
- the image capture device 6 determines the degree of preference (DP) based on facial expression as was described earlier in relation to steps 130 through 139 in FIG. 2 . (steps 430 and 432 ) The image capture device 6 also determines the degree of interest (DI) based on fixation time the same way as in steps 230 through 239 in FIG. 3 . (steps 434 and 436 ) The image capture device 6 further determines the degree of excitement (DE) based on skin conductance the same way as in steps 330 through 339 in FIG. 5 (steps 438 and 440 ).
- DP degree of preference
- DI degree of interest
- DE degree of excitement
- the higher the standard deviation within the signal the higher the weight of the contribution for the signal into the measure of positive importance. Consequently, the lower the standard deviation of a given signal, the lower the weight of the contribution for the corresponding signal into the measure of positive importance.
- the obtained degree of positive importance is compared to a threshold value (step 444 ).
- This threshold can be predetermined.
- the threshold can also be established by user 2 or established for user 2 . If the obtained degree of positive importance is above the threshold value, then the image capture device 6 creates a personal affective tag indicating the degree of positive importance (step 448 ).
- the threshold value could be determined automatically from the personal user profile, for example, on the basis of the prior cumulative probabilities of the degree of positive importance distribution. One such threshold value then can be chosen as corresponding to the degree of positive importance with the prior probability of 0.5.
- Image capture device 6 stores the corresponding scene image and the degree of positive importance in the personal affective tag as part of the image metadata (step 450 ).
- the degree of positive importance can be stored in a separate file in association with the user identification data and the image identifier.
- the information about the date the user views a certain image can be also recorded as a separate entry into personal affective tag.
- the corresponding image, the personal affective tag and other image metadata are sent to a personal database of digital images, as described earlier in reference to step 148 of FIG. 2 (step 452 ).
- the obtained degree of positive importance is below the threshold value the corresponding segment of facial images, eye images and skin conductance signals are deleted (step 446 ).
- image capture device 6 can optionally measure the next segment of facial images, eye images and skin conductance signals and repeat steps 432 through 444 as user 2 is views the same scene or the captured image of the same scene.
- the threshold value is set to 0, all scene images and corresponding affective information (degree of positive importance or, in another embodiment, raw facial images, eye images and galvanic skin response signals) recorded by the image capture device 6 will be stored.
- the degree of positive importance can be used in a digital imaging system to rank images in a systematic and continuous manner as favorite, important or exciting images for a specified user as described in commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/036,113, filed Dec. 26, 2001, entitled “Method for Creating and Using Affective Information in a Digital Imaging System” by Matraszek et al.; and Ser. No. 10/036,123, filed Dec. 26, 2001, entitled “Method for Using Affective Information Recorded With Digital Images for Producing an Album Page” by Matraszek et al.
- different combinations of facial expressions, eye characteristics and physiological reactions can be used to create the personal affective tag to classify scenes in accordance with a broader range of emotional categories, such as ‘joy’, ‘fear’, ‘anger’, etc.
- An example of such classification is shown in Table 1.
- Emotion classification based on combinations of facial expressions, eye characteristics and physiological reactions: Signals Emotion Facial expressions Eye characteristics Physiological reactions Joy smile, crinkled skin Opened eyelids, accelerated heart rate, large around eyes corners dilated pupils, direct GSR gaze Fear pale skin, trembling Widely opened accelerated heart rate, lips, chattering teeth eyelids, fast eye-blink accelerated breathing rate, fixed gaze, rate, tightened muscle dilated pupils tension, sweaty palms Anger lowered brows, Narrowed eyelids, deep and rapid flared nostrils, fixed gaze breathing, increased horizontal wrinkles blood pressure over nose bridge, tense-mouth Surprise raised eyebrows, Opened eyelids, large GSR opened mouth, Fixed gaze wrinkled brow and forehead Disgust wrinkled nose, raised Narrowed eyelids, decreased breathing nostrils, retracted Averted gaze rate upper lip, visible tongue, lowered brows Sadness lowered lips, cheeks, Narrowed eyelids, flaccid muscles, and jaw
- Images can be further classified using a range of values for these categories, such as strongly happy, somewhat happy, neutral and somewhat sad, and strongly sad, etc.
- the determined affective information in terms of the emotional category is then stored as personal affective tag, which includes the user identifier as part of the image metadata. It can also be stored in a separate file on the computer together with the image identifier and the user identifier.
- affective information about a user's response to an image is based on the combination of the four affective signals described in relation to FIGS. 2-5 , namely, the degree of preference, the degree of distinctiveness, the degree of interest, and the degree of excitement, which are further combined to obtain an integral measure of importance.
- This embodiment is suited for an embodiment such is a wearable image capture device 6 shown in FIG. 1 c.
- method steps 510 - 528 correspond to method steps 410 through 428 in FIG. 6 with only two differences: the user selects the use of “combined distinct” signals or, alternatively, the image capture device 6 is preprogrammed to use the “combined distinct” signals.
- Image capture device 6 determines the degree of distinctiveness (DD) is described earlier in relation to steps 170 - 179 in FIG. 3 (steps 530 and 533 ).
- the image capture device 6 determines the degree of importance (or magnitude of emotional response).
- the obtained degree of importance is compared to a threshold value (step 544 ).
- This threshold can be predetermined. This threshold also can be established by user 2 or established for user 2 . If the obtained degree of importance is above the threshold value, the image capture device 6 creates a personal affective tag indicating the degree of importance (step 548 ). In another embodiment the threshold value could be determined automatically from the personal user profile, for example, on the basis of the prior cumulative probabilities of the degree of importance distribution. One such threshold value then can be chosen as corresponding to the degree of importance with the prior probability of 0.5.
- the image capture device 6 stores the corresponding scene image and the degree of importance in the personal affective tag as part of the image metadata (step 550 ).
- the degree of importance can be stored in a separate file in association with the user identifier and the image identifier.
- the information about the user 2 views a certain image can be also recorded as a separate entry into personal affective tag.
- the corresponding image, the personal affective tag and other image metadata are sent to a personal database of digital images, as described earlier in reference to step 152 of FIG. 2 . (step 552 ).
- image capture device 6 can optionally measure the next segment of facial images, eye images and skin conductance signals and repeat steps 532 through 544 as user 2 views the same scene or the captured image of the scene.
- the threshold value is set to 0, all scene images and corresponding affective information (degree of importance or, in another embodiment, raw facial images, eye images and galvanic skin response signals) recorded by the image capture device 6 will be stored.
- different combinations of these three or other affective signals can be used to create the personal affective tag to classify scenes in accordance with broader range of emotional categories.
- non-affective information such as location information, image analysis, calendaring and scheduling information, time and date information can be used to help better determine affective information such as a degree of importance for association with an image.
- the degree of importance can be used in a digital imaging system to rank images in a systematic and continuous manner as favorite, important or exciting images for a specified user as described in commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/036,113, filed Dec. 26, 2001, entitled “Method for Creating and Using Affective Information in a Digital Imaging System” by Matraszek et al.; Ser. No. 10/036,123, filed Dec. 26, 2001, entitled “Method for Using Affective Information Recorded With Digital Images for Producing an Album Page” by Matraszek et al.
- the degree of importance can also be used in an image capture device 6 to make decisions about image compression, resolution and storage.
- a computer program for Creating and using personal affective tags in an image capture device can be recorded on one or more storage medium, for example; magnetic storage media such as magnetic disk (such as a floppy disk) or magnetic tape; optical storage media such as optical disk, optical tape, or machine readable bar code; solid-state electronic storage devices such as random access memory (RAM), or read-only memory (ROM); or any other physical device or media employed to store a computer program having instructions for practicing a method according to the present invention.
- magnetic storage media such as magnetic disk (such as a floppy disk) or magnetic tape
- optical storage media such as optical disk, optical tape, or machine readable bar code
- solid-state electronic storage devices such as random access memory (RAM), or read-only memory (ROM); or any other physical device or media employed to store a computer program having instructions for practicing a method according to the present invention.
- the personal affective tag can also include information designating a relative degree of importance. As described earlier, the relative degree of importance can be determined on the basis of affective information only. Alternatively, affective and non-affective information can be used in combination to determine the relative degree of importance. Examples of non-affective information include date and time information, location information such as would be available from a Global Positioning System or a similar type of electronic locator. Image analysis of the image itself can also be used as a source of non-affective information that can influence the relative degree of importance. For example, the presence of particular subject matter in a scene can be readily identified by existing image processing and image understanding algorithms. One such algorithm is disclosed in commonly assigned U.S. Pat. No. 6,282,317 B1 entitled, filed Dec.
- images of the scene can be captured in an analog electronic fona or on an optical medium such as a photographic film or plate.
- data representing affective information can be recorded in association with the image by recording affective information separately from the image with some identification code indicating the image with which the information is to be associated.
- affective information can be encoded and recorded in association with the analog electronic image.
- the affective information can be recorded optically or magnetically on the film or plate.
- the affective information can also be recorded on an electronic memory associated With the film or plate.
- affective information is described as being captured at the time of capture or during capture.
- these tens encompass any time period wherein an image is being composed or captured.
- Such time periods can also include periods immediately after the moment of capture, when, for example, a photographer is verifying that a captured image meets her satisfaction.
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- Eye movement characteristics (e.g., eye fixation duration, pupil size, blink rate, gaze direction, eye ball acceleration, features and parameters extracted from the eye movement patterns, their complexity, etc.);
- Biometric or physiological responses (e.g., galvanic skin response (GSR) hand temperature, heart rate, electromyogram (EMG), breathing patterns, electroencephalogram (EEG), brain-imaging signals, etc.);
- Facial expressions (e.g., smile, frowns, etc.);
- Vocal characteristics (e.g., loudness, rate, pitch, etc.);
- Body gestures including facial movements (e.g., pinching bridge of the nose, rubbing around ears, etc.).
DD EC=√{square root over ((N12 +N22 +N32 +N42 +N52 +N62))}
Positive Importance=DP+DI+DE
Positive Importance=w DP DP+w DI DI+w DE DE
where the weights is wDP, wDI, and wDE are determined based on the standard deviation within each of the normalized (divided by the maximum value) signals previously obtained for the particular user. In this case, the higher the standard deviation within the signal, the higher the weight of the contribution for the signal into the measure of positive importance. Consequently, the lower the standard deviation of a given signal, the lower the weight of the contribution for the corresponding signal into the measure of positive importance. The reason for this dependency stems from the assumption that a standard deviation of a particular measure for a particular user reflects an individual degree of differentiation between different scenes. This implies that the signal with the highest standard deviation has more differentiation power, and therefore is more important to consider while determining an integral measure of positive importance for a particular user.
TABLE 1 |
Emotion classification based on combinations of facial |
expressions, eye characteristics and physiological reactions: |
Signals | |||
Emotion | Facial expressions | Eye characteristics | Physiological reactions |
Joy | smile, crinkled skin | Opened eyelids, | accelerated heart rate, large |
around eyes corners | dilated pupils, direct | GSR | |
gaze | |||
Fear | pale skin, trembling | Widely opened | accelerated heart rate, |
lips, chattering teeth | eyelids, fast eye-blink | accelerated breathing | |
rate, fixed gaze, | rate, tightened muscle | ||
dilated pupils | tension, sweaty palms | ||
Anger | lowered brows, | Narrowed eyelids, | deep and rapid |
flared nostrils, | fixed gaze | breathing, increased | |
horizontal wrinkles | blood pressure | ||
over nose bridge, | |||
tense-mouth | |||
Surprise | raised eyebrows, | Opened eyelids, | large GSR |
opened mouth, | Fixed gaze | ||
wrinkled brow and | |||
forehead | |||
Disgust | wrinkled nose, raised | Narrowed eyelids, | decreased breathing |
nostrils, retracted | Averted gaze | rate | |
upper lip, visible | |||
tongue, lowered | |||
brows | |||
Sadness | lowered lips, cheeks, | Narrowed eyelids, | flaccid muscles, |
and jaw | tearing eyes, down | decreased breathing rate | |
gaze | |||
Importance=DP+DD+DI+DE
Importance=DPw DP +DDw DD +DIw DI +w DE DE
where the weights wDP, wDD, wDI, and wDE are determined based on the standard deviation within each of the normalized (divided by the maximum value) signals previously obtained for the particular user. In this case, the higher the standard deviation within the signal, the higher the weight of the contribution for the signal into the measure of importance. Consequently, the lower the standard deviation of a given signal, the lower the weight of the contribution for the corresponding signal into the measure of importance. The reason for this dependency stems from the assumption that a standard deviation of a particular measure for a particular user reflects an individual degree of differentiation between different scenes. This implies that the signal with the highest standard deviation has more differentiation power, and therefore is more important to consider while determining an integral measure of importance for a particular user.
PARTS LIST |
2 | user |
4 | scene |
6 | image capture device |
8 | capture module |
10 | user video camera |
12 | digital storage device |
13 | manual controls |
14 | central processing unit |
15 | sensors |
16 | galvanic skin response sensors |
17 | vascular sensor |
18 | communication module |
19 | vibration sensor |
20 | Internet service provider |
22 | preview screen |
24 | viewfinder |
26 | bridge |
28 | glasses frame |
29 | side piece |
110 | activate image capture device step |
112 | launch application step |
114 | enter user identification data step |
116 | determine emotional reaction step |
118 | select desirable signal step |
120 | capture scene image step |
122 | store scene image step |
124 | detect power on step |
126 | continue capture step |
128 | deactivate power step |
130 | capture facial image step |
132 | store facial image step |
134 | analyze facial image step |
136 | determine smile size step |
138 | determine degree of preference step |
139 | update personal user profile step |
140 | compare to threshold step |
142 | delete facial image step |
144 | create personal affective tag step |
146 | store image and affective tag step |
148 | send image and affective tag step |
150 | activate image capture device step |
152 | launch application step |
154 | enter user identification step |
156 | determine emotional reaction step |
158 | select desirable signal step |
160 | capture scene image step |
162 | store scene image step |
164 | detect power on step |
166 | continue capture step |
168 | deactivate power step |
170 | capture facial image step |
172 | store facial image step |
174 | analyze facial expression step |
176 | determine emotional category step |
178 | determine degree of distinctiveness step |
179 | update personal user profile step |
180 | compare degree of distinctiveness to threshold |
182 | delete image step |
184 | create personal affective tag step |
186 | store image step |
188 | send image and affective information |
210 | activate image capture device step |
212 | launch application step |
214 | enter personal information step |
216 | determine emotional reaction step |
218 | select eye gaze information step |
220 | capture scene image step |
222 | store scenic image step |
224 | detect power on step |
226 | continue capture step |
228 | deactivate power step |
230 | capture sample of eye gaze image step |
232 | store eye gaze coordinates step |
234 | determine fixation step |
236 | measure duration of fixation step |
238 | determine degree of interest in fixation step |
239 | update personal user profile step |
240 | compare to threshold step |
242 | delete image step |
244 | create personal affective tag step |
246 | store image and affective tag step |
248 | send image and affective tag step |
310 | activate image capture device step |
312 | launch application step |
314 | enter personal information step |
316 | determine emotional reaction step |
318 | select eye gaze information step |
320 | capture scene image step |
322 | store scene image step |
324 | detect power on step |
326 | continue capture step |
328 | deactivate power step |
330 | capture first segment of galvanic skin response step |
332 | store skin conductance step |
334 | filter galvanic skin response signal step |
336 | determine amplitude of galvanic skin response step |
338 | determine degree of excitement step |
339 | update personal user profile step |
340 | compare to threshold step |
342 | capture next segment step |
344 | store degree of excitement step |
346 | store image and affective tag step |
348 | send image and affective tag step |
410 | activate image capture device step |
412 | launch application step |
414 | enter personal information step |
416 | determine emotional reaction step |
418 | select desirable signal step |
420 | capture scene image step |
422 | store scene image step |
424 | detect power on step |
426 | continue capture step |
428 | end |
430 | capture facial images step |
432 | determine degree of preference step |
434 | capture eye segment step |
436 | determine degree of interest step |
438 | capture segment of skin conductance signals step |
440 | determine degree of excitement step |
442 | determine degree of importance step |
443 | query and update personal user profile step |
444 | compare importance to threshold value step |
446 | delete image step |
448 | create affective tag step |
450 | store images and affective tag step |
452 | send data step |
510 | activate image capture device step |
512 | launch application step |
514 | enter personal information step |
516 | determine emotional reaction step |
518 | select desirable signal |
520 | capture scene image step |
522 | store scene image step |
524 | end |
526 | continue capture step |
528 | deactivate power step |
530 | capture facial image step |
532 | determine degree of preference step |
533 | determine degree of distinctiveness step |
534 | capture eye segment step |
536 | determine degree if interest step |
538 | capture segment of skin conductance signals step |
540 | determine degree of excitement step |
542 | determine degree of importance step |
543 | query and update personal user profile step |
544 | compare importance to threshold value step |
546 | delete facial eye and galvanic skin step |
548 | create affective tag step |
550 | store images and affective tag step |
552 | send image step |
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